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Spears School faculty win teaching awards Professors Marilyn Kletke and Kevin Voss last October received the 2010 Ken and Leitner Greiner Excellence in Teaching Awards for undergraduate and graduate teaching, respectively. Kletke is a management information systems professor in the Spears School’s Department of Management Science and Information Systems. She also serves as coordinator for the Master of Science in management information systems program. Voss is an associate marketing professor. “It is a pleasure to honor Dr. Kletke and Dr. Voss for their notable dedication to instructional excellence,” said Larry Crosby, dean of the Spears School. “High-quality classroom instruction is central to our mission. The efforts of instructors like Dr. Kletke and Dr. Voss are vital to prepare students for success.” The awards, established in 1987 by alumni Ken and Leitner Greiner, recognize outstanding undergraduate and graduate faculty members nominated by students and fellow professors. Kletke has been at OSU since 1981 and is published in numerous academic journals. In 2008, she received a grant from the ConocoPhillips Faculty Sponsorship Program to develop a $1 million endowment for scholarships to support management information systems students. An expert in online course development and design, Kletke won the Best Practices Award for Distance Learning Teaching
from the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association in 2009. She also was a participant in the first ConocoPhillips Information Technology Professor Leader Forum in 2010. “I feel so humble to have received this award,” Kletke said. “I believe I am standing on the shoulders of many other people who make it possible for Spears School faculty to achieve excellence in teaching. I am so grateful to all those who make it possible for us to provide our students with excellence throughout their educational experiences.” Professor Voss’s doctorate, MBA and bachelor’s degree are from Washington State University. He has been a member of the OSU faculty since 1999. He teaches graduate courses in global competitive environment and measurement as well as experiential design. Voss researches international strategic alliances, international branding issues, brand alliances, marketing phenomenon measurement and cross-cultural research methods. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Marketing Research, International Marketing Review, Marketing Letters, Psychology & Marketing, and The Journal of International Consumer Marketing. “I put in a lot of time and effort to design an educational process that will help light a path for students to follow,” Voss said. “In many ways, this award signifies that my effort has paid off, not for me, but for the students.” @
OSU students take third at governor’s cup Former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry presents OSU MBA students, from left, Kip Kelley and Samantha Collingsworth with the third-place graduate division award of the April 2010 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition. Kelley and Collingsworth, honored for their proposed business Novel Water Softening, are joined by Professor Bruce Barringer, at right, their adviser. The annual competition encourages students to use their entrepreneurial skills in the real world.
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